

- Xbox 360 the sims 4 install upgrade#
- Xbox 360 the sims 4 install pro#
- Xbox 360 the sims 4 install Ps4#
- Xbox 360 the sims 4 install Pc#
Xbox 360 the sims 4 install Ps4#
In the video below the player had a regular PS4 console with almost all the Packs installed (excluding Snowy Escape, Star Wars and Tiny Living Stuff). The loading struggles were best shown by Moonlight Gem on YouTube who recorded the loading process and compared it to the newly released PS5.

Xbox 360 the sims 4 install Pc#
In conclusion – the game’s performance felt like the console didn’t even meet the minimum system requirements that are listed for PC players.

The loading struggles continued after switching into Build Mode as the game had to additionally load object thumbnails and features that are exclusive to that mode. The game somewhat normalized and was running at around 20 fps but there were still occasional lags that occured in-between, including when I was switching between Sims and anything that included loading additional assets such as Sim Profile thumbnails.
Xbox 360 the sims 4 install pro#
The struggles of playing The Sims 4 on my PS4 Pro didn’t just stop there – after finally jumping into Live Mode I’ve encountered a huge fps (frames per second) drop that lasted for a minute – probably because the game was still loading assets even after the 6-minute loading process. In comparison it takes me about a minute on my PC to get into the main menu, load up my save game and jump into Live Mode. It took me 4 minutes of loading to just enter the game’s Main Menu and additional 6 minutes to load my save game and enter Live Mode. I’ve gotten a chance to revisit The Sims 4 with all of the Packs installed on my PS4 Pro and I was shocked to discover how slow the game runs on the platform. However Console players who aren’t tech-savvy and expect The Sims 4 with multiple packs installed to run smoothly on their PS4 / Xbox One will be unpleasantly surprised.
Xbox 360 the sims 4 install upgrade#
This really isn’t an issue for PC players considering that doing an SSD upgrade is really cheap in 2020. However, players who are stuck with older computers where The Sims 4 is installed on an HDD playing the game becomes difficult. For players that have almost all or all packs installed on their desktops that have SSDs this really isn’t an issue considering that the game still switches between loading screens in a matter of seconds. Skip to 2020 and we have The Sims 4 series that, at the time of writing this article, has 10 Expansion Packs, 9 Game Packs and 17 Stuff Packs. This was all thanks to the power of SSDs providing enormous writing and reading speeds for their disks. This made plenty of video games, including The Sims 4, skip the loading screen in just a matter of seconds. By the time The Sims 4 came out along with some of the first packs PC and Laptop manufacturers have already started creating pre-built computers with SSDs that are way faster than HDDs. The introduction of SSDs (or Solid State Drives) was already on its way for PC computers during that period and players have already started adapting and upgrading their desktop computers with SSDs. Both Consoles have been released in the holiday season of 2013 and both rely on the now outdated method of storaging files – Hard Disk Drives. The Sims Team released multiple updates for the Console version that somewhat solved the issue but there was something they couldn’t stop – releasing new Packs.īefore I begin with explaining why The Sims 4 (with Packs installed) is no longer playable on Xbox One and PS4 I’ll have to first explain the way those consoles have been built. The optimization of the game in the beginning wasn’t too bad but there was room for improvement. When The Sims 4 first came out for Xbox One and PS4 back in November 2017 I was excited to test out just how well it runs on my PS4 Pro.
